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A boy playing for Walton Verona had what's being called a cardiac event after a game against Holy Cross.

As WLWT News 5's Todd Dykes explains, athletic officials scrambled for a device that may have saved the young man's life.

"It was right at the end of the last game," Dr. Bill Dickens, the leader of Calvary Christian School, said. "It was already dark, getting dark, and a young man went down with a cardiac situation. Our athletic director and the trainer that we have, provided for us by St. Elizabeth, responded."

Calvary Christian hosted the tournament game in question.

Fortunately, the school has an automated external defibrillator, or AED, which an athletic trainer used on the boy until an ambulance arrived.

"According to EMTs, the fact that they responded with the AED, CPR, all that stuff - the young man survived," Dickens said.

"Awesome, awesome. What a save," Laura Batson said when Dykes told her what happened.

"Maybe this is a sign," Batson added. "You getting ahold of me and, yeah, something good has happened."

The reason Batson cares so much about Calvary Christian's use of an AED to help a child in need is because the medical device was donated to the school by an organization she founded after a family tragedy.

"Cameron passed in October of 2010," Batson said.

Batson's son, Cameron, died of an undiagnosed heart problem while practicing soccer on another soccer field in Kenton County.

As a result, Laura started Cameron's Cause, a nonprofit that started donating heart defibrillators to as many schools as possible, including Calvary Christian.

"It is so important because you only have three to five minutes to get that on the victim," Batson said.

Dickens showed Dykes the kind of AED used to help the soccer player from Walton Verona, saying, "I guess it's dummy-proof. You hook it up and it tells you whether to administer a shock or not."

He's grateful Cameron's Cause was able to raise the money necessary to donate the AED to Calvary Christian.

"We're a small school and don't have a lot of funds available for things like that," Dickens said. "But thankfully we were included in that donation along with other schools and that allowed us to have this piece of equipment."

Calvary Christian's athletic director, Matt Morrison, credits the trainer who used the AED for reacting quickly.

"I truly believe that she saved a young man's life," Morrison said.

Scott Helton is a certified athletic trainer and clinic manager at St. Elizabeth Sports Medicine, which provides athletic training services to several schools in Northern Kentucky.

"The thing we're most happy with is the training that our staff has," Helton said. "The training we have as certified athletic trainers came into play here."

In addition to the trainer and the AED, Calvary Christian's Bill Dickens believes a higher power was also at play.